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Re: Oh no...
by Morty on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @08:52

>The correct solution would be to remove the old libraries in /usr anyways to avoid the problems.

No it's not the correct solution, for several reasons. First the ability to have several versions of KDE installed is a feature, and I don't think removing the stable version for unstable/svn version would be particularly popular by some of the users on this box(me included:-).

>This is no Makefile issue, nor is it a configure or autotools issue. It's an issue of precedence of where the compiler and linker or libtools is searching first.

How come simple changes to Makefile.am make it work or not, without any other changes anywhere. If it had been that simple the rest of the package would also have had failed building, and not only the one lone directory. As $(all_libraries) are positioned both places in the rest of the package. And the same can be said of the 10 other KDE source packages which builds correctly in the same environment, not having any precedence problems. Personally I think such unpredictable behavior in the build systems clearly confirms it has major issues.

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